Kolkata: Amidst speculation that the country’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna may be conferred on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his grandnephew claimed that a majority of his family members did not approve of the idea.
Chandra Kumar Bose, Netaji’s grandnephew, claimed that most family members were opposed to the conferment of the award and instead demanded that the mystery of his disappearance be solved first.
“Netaji has been missing since 1945. When you award him with Bharat Ratna posthumously, you have to say when he died, but where is the evidence? The best way to honour him is to declassify government files which can reveal the truth behind his disappearance,” Bose said.
The family and members of the Open Platform for Netaji had recently written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding formation of a Special Investigation Team under the guidance of a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to investigate into Netaji’s disappearance.
He went missing in 1945, giving birth to India’s most debated and lingering mystery ever. The Mukherjee Commission which inquired into the disappearance had rejected the opinion that he died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945.
